Victorian Period Essay

The Victorian Period started in 1832. There was a husband and wife duo of writers during this time. Their names were Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. They got married in 1846 and during that time she wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese as well as Sonnet 43 which we covered in class. He wrote a poem named Porphyria's Lover. Another writer that we covered in class was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He became the poet laureate in 1850. The poet laureate …

…Victorian Period is of course when Victoria became the queen of England in 1837. The horrible Potato famine began in Ireland in 1845, which killed millions of people. The Social and Political revolutions in France, Germany, and the Austrian Empire failed in 1848. A very important man named Gandhi was in India in 1869. Perhaps the worst thing to happen in this period is the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, which also marked the end of the Victorian Period.